Just found a dude on Soulseek who has a bunch of early avant garde films, including some Kenneth Anger, Kris Bargerg, Derek Jarman and even Man Ray's' Le Retour A La Raison' and Marcel Duchamp's 'Anemic Cinema'. Pretty cool find considering this stuff's ridiculously hard-to-come-by nature. Also i found another guy who had Stan Brakhage's 1971 film 'The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes'. Downloaded the first 10 minutes and all it is is these silent, jerky colour closeups of some dudes examining a rotting dead body in a morgue, with some intriguing closeups of the corpse's inflamed testicles. ewwww. Am yet to find any Maya Deren.
Anyone else seen any of his work? His colour and light approach sounds interesting, and isn't he supposed to be like the first guy who well and truly seperated the avant garde from classical cinema, realising its potential as a new subversive medium?
Anyone else seen any of his work? His colour and light approach sounds interesting, and isn't he supposed to be like the first guy who well and truly seperated the avant garde from classical cinema, realising its potential as a new subversive medium?